A Ugent BOF starting grants is funding research on this project, which examines the relationship between fashion and architecture in terms of their historical-theoretical underpinnings and on their interdependence in ...read more
In 2022 the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee celebrates 50 years of existence. The institution seizes the jubilee as an opportunity to write the history of the Centre, resulting in a publication, ...read more
Jan Vercruysse kan beschouwd worden als een tentoonstellingskunstenaar. Hij hechtte uitzonderlijk veel belang aan de presentatie van zijn werk en nam zelf de rol van curator op zich, waarbij hij ...read more
This dissertation investigates the interplay between theatricality and religious representation in Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart'sCérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737). As a richly illustrated collection of ...read more
This research focuses on the development of refugee posttrauma care in the field of transcultural psychology and applied theatre in western host societies. With respect to refugee posttrauma care, both ...read more
This research project explores how (popular) music artists disclose public identities incorporating elements of their quotidian precarious identity in an era of social media. It departs from the contemporary performance artists Ivo Dimchev ...read more
Over the past decades, the theatrical landscape of Brussels has increasingly reflected its multilingual everyday reality on stage. In consequence, today’s heteroglossic productions have propelled various dramaturgic and aesthetic experiments ...read more
When calling a place “picturesque”, do we mean “pretty”, or perhaps “predictable” or “superficial”? Over a century ago, when symbolist artists sought melancholic views to express the hidden soul of things, were such ...read more
Contemporary dance in the Eastern European periphery is still at the very onset of the process of institutionalization and its particular working modes and (kin)aesthetics are largely understudied and until ...read more
Confidential images of crime scenes, in the form of glass negatives and photographic prints in legal files from the 1920s and 1930s, housed in the State Archives, formed the somewhat ...read more